Cryptic crossword No 2,791
Sat 25 Oct 2025, set byIlinx
Special Instructions: No special instructions. There's one obsolete word, but it's in Collins.
Also hello, first time publishing here.
Across
- Hornet's excited by a body of water (5,3)
- Loves trouble, even griefs (6)
- Branch of science that can make cyclists happier? (8,7)
- Aluminium underwear containing meat for palace (8)
- Cryptic test: 9's conscious. (8)
- Sophisticated American backing Latin salute (5)
- Important chap from ancient city (6)
- See 1a
- Polish have permits to mess with your top tier TV series (5,3,7,6)
- Boss drops right clanger (5)
- Sword manoeuvre puts good man right next to female warrior (9)
- Point, in fight, at our empty divider (9)
- Shown behind obstruction (8)
- Principles I bargain with, Bob (6)
Down
- Use money, trade initial style for uniform, get turn over (5)
- 10 in clumsy deceleration of Franco-British agreement (7,8)
- Kind of verse with emotionally rich content (5)
- Miniature golf item, not even nasty (6)
- Attractive man swallows last bug? Refer back. (8)
- Half of quarter, four of two, quarter of half (6)
- Ariel manufacturer's line in walkway (5)
- Sunny multiple exposures of bum, belonging to Austen heroine (9)
- Use drug to raise short dinosaur (5)
- Conform to nothing without first exploring by way of London district (9)
- Hives are in the air, a citrus ascending (9)
- Quickly recited and leered, perhaps? (6,3)
- Develop art in USA, like Schwarzenegger (8)
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